A lot of people find it generic and feel that no talent is required to make pop music. I lover older songs but I also enjoy pop. I do think that a lot of the pop stars today possess little to no talent but I still enjoy some of their songs because like I said its catchy and gets stuck in my head. There's really nothing wrong with listening to pop music as long you don't insult people who don't care for it.

While there's nothing inherently "bad" about listening to simplistic, often (but not always) talentless music, it says something about your intelligence if anything beyond the same 4 chords, generic melody and drumbeat bores you.

Also, for musicians like myself, it can get incredibly frustrating when you dedicate thousands of hours to mastering an instrument and your band gets little to no recognition, let alone money, while a talentless hack like Ke$ha makes millions off of singing talentless, autotuned pop music

BQ: Yes, pop music is a distinct genre. Nobody called Metallica or Guns n' Roses pop even when they topped the Billbord 200 for months

Too generic, it hasn't progressed that much as a genre since it began. I guess if you like listening to the same thing over and over and over and over and over again, then go ahead.....listen to pop. Sure it's a genre of music, but even the nonpopular stuff is generic in my opinion. From the amount of thumbs down, this is why I try not to tell people my opinion on music. They don't take it as an opinion, they just think of it as me trying to bad mouth their genre.
P.S. I hate 99.9% of pop music, MJ and the ones listed by the answerer above are alright. I don't hate those who are able to make any genre as a whole evolve and become more progressive.

A lot of people are obsessed with being unique and refuse to enjoy anything that they consider mainstream. A lot of people think the lyrics are shallow and the music is talentless.
But there's nothing wrong with pop, it's just a matter of opinion.
It is a genre

Pop music, for one, is rubbish, primarily because the people preforming the songs didn't even write them. (If you need proof that it is rubbish, click on this link > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6j4f8cHBIM&ob=av3e ) Pop music tends to be very annoying, repetitive, redundant, and loud. That is why I listen to Classic Rock.

Also, pop is not a genre of music, it is just what's popular. For example, "Live and Let Die" by Paul McCartney and the Wings is listed as pop in my iTunes library.